In our area, when citizens show up for public meetings of local officials and speak, they are listened to. Suddenly the body that sits in the Elbert County Commission’s chairs has gone deaf and dumb as a row of fence posts.[Full Story »]

The Environmental Protection Division has changed the location for its public hearing Feb. 18 on a proposal to double the electrical output of the Plant Dahlberg combustion turbine generating plant in Center.
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Proposed facility would burn up to 1,800 tons of garbage a day about 1.25 miles from Madison Co. line

Madison County’s neighbors to the east are still mulling a proposed trash incinerator/electricity-generating facility about 1.25 miles east of the Madison/Elbert line that could burn up to 1,800 tons of garbage a day.
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